Never Butter Burger Baps: NVIDIA, Asus Laptops and Your Five Essential Apps
NVIDIA has bought Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, and Steven Scott and Shaun Preece dig into what that means for open source AI models, local AI on your own machine, and whether free models can survive the money now pouring into artificial intelligence. There is also a full verdict on the ASUS ProArt PX13, a Lenovo ThinkPad that lost its shine, and the networking app that changed how both hosts work.
The NVIDIA and Hugging Face deal sits at the centre of the show. Shaun makes the case that a hardware company owning the biggest open model repository could be good news, because NVIDIA sells…
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